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Fulton County District Attorney plans to seek death penalty against Atlanta spa shooting suspect CNN 2 days ago By Jason Morris and Ray Sanchez, CNN © Chang W. Lee/The New York Times/Redux Pictures Cynthia Shi and her boyfriend, Graham Bloomsmith, embrace outside Gold Spa near Acworth, Ga., on Thursday, March 18, 2021, one of three massage businesses where eight people were killed and another injured by a shooter on Tuesday. The Atlanta area shootings, in which six women of...

The suspect in a string of fatal shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors was indicted Tuesday on domestic terror and murder charges, and prosecutors signaled they will also seek hate crime charges – something advocates have been pushing since the March slayings rattled the Asian-American community.  Robert Aaron Long was officially indicted by a Fulton County grand jury in the fatal shootings of four people killed at two spas in Atlanta: Suncha Kim, 69; Soon Chung Park, 74; Hyun Jung...

Fulton County District Attorney will seek death penalty against Atlanta spa shooting suspect CHANG W. LEE/The New York Times/ Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed notice with the Fulton Superior Court on Tuesday that she plans to seek th...

Death penalty, hate crime charges sought in Georgia spa shootings AFP 3 days ago AFP © Elijah Nouvelage Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for the man arrested for attacks on three Georgia spas in March 2021 Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty and file hate crime charges against the man accused of shooting dead eight people, including six women of Asian origin, in attacks on three spas in the southern US state of Georgia. Robert Aaron Long, 22, was indicted b...

Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed notice with the Fulton Superior Court on Tuesday that she plans to seek the death penalty and enhanced hate crimes charges against Long in the first test of a hate crime law passed by the Georgia Legi...

Prosecutor seeks death penalty for Atlanta spa shooting suspect Cherokee County Sheriffs office Robert Aaron Long, Georgia massage parlors shooting suspect. ATLANTA, Georgia — Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the shootings that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area Asian spas, has been indicted on murder charges, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for hate crimes targeting the sex and race of the victims, according to a source familiar with the criminal investigation. Fulton C...

Grief and anger; Asian American community calls for action at Needham vigil Wicked Local A man killed eight people, including six Asian women, at three Atlanta-area spas on March 16 in a shooting spree he later told investigators was inspired by "sexual addiction." In court a day later, prosecutors charged Robert A. Long with eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault. The killings came amid a recent wave of attacks against Asian Americans coinciding with the spread of the cor...

close to having a moment of self-realization. The paper of record published a lengthy profile this month on former alt-right YouTuber Caolan Robertson, characterizing his methods for promoting far-right viewpoints, all while growing a sizeable online audience, as exceptionally devious and innovative. The funny thing is: There is nothing original or ingenious about the model employed by Robertson, especially his use of staged confrontations and selectively edited interviews. Indeed, major newsro...

increase font size The shootings fit into a sad pattern in the United States By Jeff ChangSpecial To The Washington Post Read Article A vigil and march to remember and honor the eight lives lost Tuesday in Atlanta takes place in the Chinatown area of Washington, D.C., on March 17. Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post When former president Donald Trump began a year ago to attach the spread of the coronavirus to Asians and Asian Americans by using the term “the Chinese virus,” he was h...

Yes, the Atlanta shooting was a hate crime fueled by racism and misogyny On March 16, 2021, a white gunman was charged with killing eight people in three separate spas in Atlanta. Six of those victims were Asian women. According to the shooter, he saw spas as the source of his sexual temptations and believed that eliminating them would suppress these urges. Even though the shooter correlated the spas with his sexual desires, there is no evidence that the spas had any connections to sexual work....